We are proud to release the new 3.0 release of the cache component.
The cache component is now also available for Joomla 1.5 and Mambo 4.6.x.
The 3.0 release is build from scratch again based on an own code base and libraries and is available for Mambo and Joomla websites Version 1.0b of the cache component is still available for Joomla 1.0x serie only or higher.

Standard out of the box Joomla and Mambo websites generates dynamicly webpages on the user request.
This means that for each request the specific page must be composed by excecuting PHP code and SQL queries.
On normal "hosting" environment the generation of a Joomla pages can take up to 0,4 - 1,4 seconds depending on the hosting environment and the number of components used. For large volume visitor sites this can result into slow performance of the website. When enabled this component can "generates" pages within 0,02 - 0,001 seconds (depending on your hosting environment).

Installation of the component is simple. You can install the component through the Joomla installer, but make sure that the /index.php and the /administrator/index2.php files
of your webserver has the permissions to be overwritten by the patch file (set the permission on 666) and make also sure that your root directory of your website (the location where the index.php is)
and the root of the administrator directory is also writeable.

In the installation process the orginal index.php file in your webserver root is copied to jindex.php and the administrator/index2.php is copied to administrator/jindex2.php then the cache component
will install the cache index.php file and the administrator/index2.php file. These files will included the original index.php file and the administrator/index2.php file.

If you get a permission error at installation time you can install the component simply by your self with a FTP program. Therefor perform the following steps:

After installation you will need to "enable" the cache through the configuration panel.
When you enable the cache make sure that the 'default' settings are correct. For example the component uses the default location of your website configuration file,
but if this is located on a different location due to security reasons correct the path in the configuration setting.

Within the Administration panel you can administrate the behauviour of the cache repository.